SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
THE LINCOLN DOUGLAS DEBATES OF 1858
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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All states will be slave states or all states will be free states.
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The Union will be disbanded to allow for independent regions.
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A new Union will be formed from states in the South and North.
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Some states will be slave states and other states will be free states.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lincoln predicts that the country will not remain divided and that one half of the country will change its position on this issue. Either all of the states will allow slavery, or none of them will.
Detailed explanation-2: -"A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe the government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved-I do not expect the house to fall-but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.
Detailed explanation-3: -In his “house divided” speech, Lincoln countered that the Dred Scott decision the previous year had already opened the doors for slavery to be legal in the north, as well as all territories that the U.S. expanded into. If the U.S. wanted to be a free country, he argued, it had to act now before it was too late.
Detailed explanation-4: -“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved-I do not expect the house to fall-but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Detailed explanation-5: -Who is Lincoln speaking to and why is he addressing them? Lincoln is addressing his colleagues during the Republican convention of 1858 when he was running for Senator because to argue that the country needed to be united once again due to the slavery agitation.